Day in pictures

Visitors from Dahlonega, Ga., watch the surf crash into the pylons under the pier on Tybee Island, Ga., Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, as Hurricane Irene heads towards South Florida. Forecasters are predicting that Irene will strike North Carolina's Outer Banks on Saturday.

Credit: AP Photo/Stephen Morton

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez makes the victory sign after a meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba in June that removed a cancerous tumor from his pelvic region, and shaved his head after starting to lose his hair due to chemotherapy.

Credit: AP Photo/Fernando Llano

A man covered in mud sunbathes next to a small mineral spring pool in Ovca, a rural suburb of Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Hot weather has set in with temperatures rising up to 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit ) in Serbia.

Credit: AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic

North Korean women dance in front of their nation's flag, made by thousands of people holding colored cards in the seats of the May Day stadium in Pyongyang during a performance, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. North Korea's huge synchronized dance and gymnastics show, called "Arirang," includes up to 100,000 participants, according to organizers.

Credit: AP Photo/David Guttenfelder

Demonstrator Muftah Abdelsamad shows off a wristband featuring the colors of their rebel flag and the date when the opposition movement in Libya started, outside the Libyan Embassy in London, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. In London, opposition Libyan officials rolled out a new doormat Wednesday bearing Gadhafi's image so that visitors to his rebel-held embassy could trample over his portrait as they entered the building.

Credit: AP Photo/Akira Suemori

Maria dos Anjos, a 62-year-old official dunker, bathes a young boy in the sea, Wednesday, Aug. 24 2011, as part of a ritual expected to heal and protect children from the Devil, in Sao Bartolomeu do Mar, Portugal. The ritual began at daybreak with children carrying black roosters around St. Bartholomew church three times, kissing a statue of the saint and then heading to the beach where they are dipped three times in the sea to complete the centuries old ritual.

Vice President Joe Biden walks to the dais to deliver remarks at Yokota Air Base, on Tokyo's outskirts, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. Biden, who on Aug. 23 visited an area in northeastern Japan that was devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, came to this U.S. air force base to thank military and civilian personnel for helping with relief and recovery efforts after the disaster.

Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi

India's anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare rests in front of a giant portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the ninth day of his hunger strike, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011. India's government worked Wednesday to end Hazare's hunger strike protest, calling for all the parties in Parliament to debate his demands for stringent anti-corruption legislation.

Credit: AP Photo/Manish Swarup

Ted Tuz, a Pennsylvania Dept. of Transportation contractor with Pickering, Corts, and Summerson, Inc., inspects an Interstate 95 overpass, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2011, in Philadelphia. Inspectors across the state are making spot checks on bridges, roads, dams and more in the aftermath of tremors from the 5.8 magnitude quake that was centered in Virginia.